Social Justice & Racial Justice Courses
Disclaimer: The courses listed are a combination of student research and department input.
Individual experiences may vary, consult your advisor and Rate My Professor before enrolling in any of the following courses.
- ACC 311 — Accounting Information Systems — 3.00 credits — Fall/Spring
- AFROAM 101 — Intro to Black Studies — (Quaram Robinson) → none
- AFROAM 117 — Survey of Afro-Am Lit — (Brit Rusert) → AL, DU
- AFROAM 132 — African-American History, 1619-1860 — (Anne Kerth) → DU, HS
- AFROAM 151 — Literature and Culture — (Jim Smethurst) (Olivia Ekeh) → AL, DU
- AFROAM 170 — The Grassroots Experience in American Life and Culture — (C.J. Martin) (Kiara Hill- RAP only) → DU, HS
- AFROAM 192F — Freshman Survival Techniques — (Doris Clemmons) → none
- AFROAM 234 — Literature of the Harlem Renaissance — (Steve Tracy)→ AL, DU
- AFROAM 236 — History of the Civil Rights Movement — (Cécile Yézou- online) (Traci Parker) → DU, HS
- AFROAM 245 — Slave Narratives — (A-Yemisi Jimoh) → none
- AFROAM 290G — Global Black Studies — (Amilcar Shabazz) → none
- AFROAM 297B — Black Workers in the U.S. — (John Bracey) → none
- AFROAM 397N — Black Presence at UMass — (John Bracey) → none
- AFROAM 591B — Black Radical Thought — (Amilcar Shabazz) → none
- ANTHRO 297W — W.E.B. Du Bois in Our Time: From Reconstruction to Black Lives Matter — (Whitney Battle-Baptiste) → none
- ANTHRO 205 — Power & Inequality in the U.S. — 4.0 credits — (currently full) → DU, SB — (Fall 2020)
- ANTHRO 345 — Urban Anthropology — 3.0 credits — No prerequisites → none — (Fall 2020)
- ANTHRO 591 — Anti-Racism: Theory & Practice — (open to both undergrads & grads of any major) — 3.0 credits — No prerequisites → none — (Fall 2020)
- EPI 635 — Social Epidemiology — 3.00 credits — Spring (every other year)
- COMM 394EI — Performance & Politics of Race — (Kimberlee Perez) → none
- COMM 288 — Gender, Sex, and Representation — 4.00 credits — Fall and Spring → none
- COMM 325H — Race, Media, and Politics — 4.00 credits — Fall (open to CHC students) → DU, HS
- COMM 335 — Media & Education — 4.00 credits — Fall (open to non-majors with professor permission) → none
- COMM 386 — Race, Inequality, & Representation — 4.00 credits — Fall and Spring → SB
- COMM 209H — LGBT politics and media — 4.00 credits — Spring (open to CHC students) → DU, SB
- EDUC 101 — Introduction to Education: Schooling in the United States "Schooling 101" — (Rebecca Mazur, Rebecca Woodland) → SB
- EDUC 115 — Embracing Diversity — (Benita Barnes) → DU I
- EDUC 191EDUC28 — FYS- Breaking the Invisible Walls (Nangyalai Attal) → none
- EDUC 210 — Social Diversity in Education — 4.00 credits — Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 → DU I
- EDUC 229 — Introduction to International Education — (Bjorn Nordtveit)
- EDUC 392D — Social Issues Workshop: Racism — 1.00 credit — Fall 2020 → none
- EDUC 392 — Social Justice Issues: Ableism — 1.00 credit — Fall 2020 → none
- EDUC 522 — Education for Social Justice Education Self-Awareness — 3.00 credits — Fall 2020 → none
- EDUC 624 — Contemporary and Historical Constructions of Social Justice Education — 3.00 credits — Fall 2020 → none
- EDUC 648 — Oppression and Education — 3.00 credits — Fall 2020 → none
- EDUC 691E — Social Justice Issues in Education — 3.00 credits — Fall 2020 → none
- EDUC 691G — Social Justice Education Teaching & Reflective Practice — Fall 2020 → none
- EDUC 797K — Social Justice Education with College Students — 3.00 credits — Fall 2020 → none
- EDUC 893C — SJE Doctoral Proseminar — 3.00 credits — Fall 2020 → none
- EDUC 202 — Social Issues/Intergroup Dialogue — 4.00 credits — Spring 2021 → DU, SB
- EDUC 293A — Love and Work — 4.00 credits — Spring 2021 → SB
- EDUC 595G — LGBTQ Issues in Schools — 3.00 credits — Spring 2021 → none
- EDUC 627 — Curriculum design & Facilitation — 3.00 credits — Spring 2021 → none
- EDUC 688 — Social and Cultural Foundations in Counseling — 3.00 credits — Spring 2021 → none
- EDUC 746 — Social Justice Education with Youth — 3.00 credits — Spring 2021 → none
- EDUC 795E — Theory, Practice, & Research of Intergroup Dialogues In Schools, Colleges & Community — 3.00 credits — Spring 2021 → none
- EDUC 797C — Alternative Paradigms in Critical Research Methods — 3.00 credits — Spring 2021 → none
- ENG 132 — Gender, Sexuality, Society, & Literature Women, Power, and the Body → AL, DG
- ENG 115H — The American Experience, Honors (open to freshmen) — (Hoang Phan) → AL, DU
- ENG 116 — Native American Literature — (Laura Furlan) → AL, DU
- ENG 117 — Ethnic American Literature — (Leslie Leonard) → AL, DU
- ENG 131 — Society and Literature — (Crystal Baines) → AL, DG
- ENG 144 — World Literature in English (RAP) — (Korka Sall) → AL, DG
- ENG 150 — Writing and Society — (Laura Furlan) → DU, SB
- ENG 205 — Intro to Post-Colonial Studies — (Stephen Clingman)
- ENG 269 — American Literature and Culture after 1865 — (Sarah Patterson)
- ENG 392T — Reading Transgender — (Joy Hayward-Jansen)
- ENG 491SA — Literature of Apartheid and Post-Apartheid South Africa → none
- ENG 317 — (Dis)ability and Literature — 3.00 credits — Fall — (Janis Greve)
- ENG 300 — Junior-Year Writing: Resistance and Revolution in 20th and 21st Century American Poetry — Fall — (Ruth Jennison)
- ENG 300 — Junior-Year Writing: Black London — Fall — (Gretchen Gerzina)
- ENG 300 — Junior-Year Writing: Death and Resurrection in African American Literature and Culture — Fall — (Jimmy Worthy)
- ENG 302 — Studies in Textuality and New Media--The Social Life of Data — Fall — (Sarah Patterson)
- ENG 371 — African American Literature — (Jimmy Worthy)
- ENG 378 — American Women Writers — (Gloria Biamonte)
- ENG 481 — Individual American Writers- Topic: Willa Cather, Flannery O'Connor, and Toni Morrison — (Dix McComas)
- EHS 704 — Journal Club in Environ Health — 1.00 credit → none
- EHS 790J — Journal Club — 1.00 credit
- HISTORY 397REH — Special Topics- Race, Sex, and Empire: Britain and India, Honors → none
- HISTORY 247 — Empire, Race, and the Philippines — (Richard Chu) → DG, HS
- HISTORY 290A — African American History from Africa to the Civil War — (Michael Jirik) → DU, HS
- HISTORY 397RL — Special Topics- Rape Law: Gender, Race, (In)justice — (Jennifer Nye) → none
- HISTORY 397SU — Special Topics- Slavery and Universities: Past and Present — (Michael Jirik) → class not found
- HISTORY 363 — Civil War Era — (Sarah Cornell) → none
- HISTORY 391PL — Seminar- Plymouth 1620: Rethinking 400 Years of History — (Guillaume Aubert) → none
- AH 328/628 — Arts of the Americas to 1860 — 3.00 credits — Fall → none
- AH 397X/697X — Marian Devotion in Latin American Art — 3,00 credits — Fall [not offered 20-21]
- AH 391R/691R — Visual Legacies of Colonialism — 3.00 credits — Fall and Spring → none
- AH 781 — Methods of Art History (Seminar) — 3.00 credits — Fall → none
- AH 397R — Women in Architecture — 3.00 credits — Fall 2020 → none
- AH 345 — Architecture Now: A History of Sustainable Architecture — 3.00 credits — Fall → Class not found
- AH 397V/697V — Vexed Antiquities: what to do about looted art in US museums? — 3.00 credits — Spring → none
- AH 791A — Afro-Latin Art — 3.00 credits — Spring → none
- AH 329/629 — Latin American and US Latinx 1800-Present — 3.00 credits — Spring → none
- AH 327/62 — Contemporary Art (emphasis on community engagement) — 3.00 credits — Spring → none
- AH 391P/691P — Identity Politics in Art, 1960s-Present — 3.00 credits — Spring → none
- HT-MGT 492L — Global Hospitality Leadership — 3.00 credits — Fall/Spring → none
- HT-MGT 260 — Human Resources Management for the Hospitality Industry → none
- HT-MGT 397P — Global Perspectives in Food Service Spring — 3.00 credits → none
- MIDEAST 392S — Contemporary Syria in Regional and Global Context — 3.00 credits — Fall → none
- JUDAIC 383 — Women, Gender, Judaism — 4.00 credits — Fall → none
- JUDAIC 492M — History, Evidence, Memory: The Case of 1948 in Palestine and Israel — 3.00 credits — Fall → none
- JUDAIC 326 — Sustainability in Comparative Religious Perspective — 4.00 credits — Fall → DG HS
- MIDEAST 190A — Water, Blood, Oil: The Middle East in Global Policy — 4.00 credits — Spring → DG, SB
- LEGAL 391 — Sexual Violence, Justice, and the Law — (Meredith Loken) → none
- LEGAL 250 — Intro to Legal Studies — (Lauren McCarthy) → DU SB
- SCH-MGMT 200DI — Intro to Diversity & Inclusion in Business
- MANAGMNT 366 — Foundations of Sustainable Enterprise — 3.00 credits — Fall/Spring
- MANAGMNT 379 — Behavior in the Global Economy — 3.00 credits — Fall
- MANAGMNT 391E — Environmental Law — 3.00 credits — Spring
- MANAGMNT 462 — Social Entrepreneurship — 3.00 credits — Fall/Spring
- MKTG 497G — Generating Customer Insights — 3.00 credits — Fall/Spring
- MKTG 498B — Advertising Practicum — 3.00 credits — Spring
- MUS 103 — History of Jazz — 4.00 credits — Fall → AT DU
- PHIL 160 — Intro to Ethics — 4.00 credits — Fall/Spring → AT
- PHIL 170 — Problems in Social Thought — 4.00 credits — Fall/Spring → SB
- PHIL 180 — Death and the Meaning of Life — 4.00 credits — Fall → DG SB
- PHIL 397C — Continental Philosophy — 3.00 credits — Fall → none
- PHIL 371 — Philosophical Perspectives on Gender — 4.00 credits — Fall → SB
- PHIL 592D — Power, Politics, ad Human Nature — 3.00 credits — Fall → none
- PHIL 163 — Business Ethics — 4.00 credits — Fall/Spring → AT
- PHIL 164 — Medical Ethics — 4.00 credits — Fall/Spring → AT
- POLISCI 181 — Controversies in Public Policy — (Elizabeth Sharrow)
- POLISCI 297XH — The Science of Health Inequalities: the Politics of Policy Intervention — Spring → none
- POLISCI 310 — Race and American Politics — (Tatishe Nteta) → none
- POLISCI 372 — Black Political Thought — (Adam Dahl) → DU SB
- POLISCI 397P — Health Care Politics and Inequality in the United States — (Dean Robinson) → none
- PSYCH 201H — What Makes Us Human → SB
- PSYCH 391ZZ — Psychology of the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Experience — 3.00 credits — Fall/Spring → none
- PSYCH 391 — International Justice in the Age of Global Conflict — 3.00 credits — Fall 2020 → none
- PSYCH 391 — Psychology of Trauma — 3.00 credits — Fall 2020 → none
- PSYCH 391SS — Prejudice and Intergroup Relations — 3.00 credits — Fall/Spring → none
- PSYCH 660 — Advanced Social Psychology — 3.00 credits — Fall 2020 → none
- PSYCH 391AD — The Psychology of Adoption — Fall 2020 → none
- PSYCH 591 — Culture, Identity, and Power — 3.00 credits — Spring 2021 → none
- PSYCH 480 — Intellectual Disability: Concepts and Controversy — Fall/Spring → none
- PSYCH 217 — Psychology of Cruelty and Kindness — Fall/Spring → none
- PUBHLTH 129 — Health Care For All — (Airin Martinez, Michael Begay)
- PUBHLTH 191PUBH18 — FYS-Healthy Campus Communities — (Sally Linowski)
- PUBHLTH 389 — Health Inequities — (Jya Plavin)
- FFYS 191PUB9 — The Connection between Society and Health — 1.00 credit — Fall
- PUBHLTH 200 — Intro to Public Health — 3.00 credits — Fall/Spring
- SPHHS 191PUBH1 — Getting on Track, First Year Seminar — 1.00 credit — Fall
- PUBHLTH 390CE — Controversies in Environmental Health — 3.00 credits — Fall
- SPHHS 191PUBH20 — Contemplative Practice & Public Health — 1.00 credit — Fall
- SPHHS 191PUBH21 — Public Health, Fact or Fiction — 1.00 credit — Fall
- SOC 105 — Social Problems — (Kathleen Houlton)
- SOC 105 — Self, society, and interpersonal relationships — (Terra Steinkuehler) — Fall
- SOC 103 - Social Problems
- SOC 106 — Race, Gender, Class, & Ethnicity — (Kelly Giles)
- SOC 110 - Intro to Sociology
- SOC 204 — Labor and the Global Economy — 4.00 credits — Fall
- SOC 220 — Sociology of American Culture — (Aaron Yates)
- SOC 224 — Social Class and Inequality — 4.00 credits — Fall
- SOC 242 — Drugs & Society — 4.00 credits — Fall
- SOC 241 - Criminology
- SOC 283 - Gender and Society
- SOC 323 - Sociology of Law
- SOC 323 — Sociology of Immigration
- SOC 328 - Intro to Social Work
- SOC 327 — Social Change
- SOC 32901 — Social Movements — 4.00 credits
- SOC 334 - Sociology of International Crises & Disasters
- SOC 349 — Race, Class and Crime — (Wenona Raymond-Richmond)
- SOC 397VP — Special topics: Violence by and against the police — (Joel Garner)
- SOC 346 — Communities and Crime — (Wenona Raymond-Richmond)
- SOC 392J — Race and Policing — Fall
- SPAN 357 — Spanish for Service Professions
- SPAN 382 — Spanish in the US
- SPAN 471 — Linguistic Varieties and Pluralism
- SPAN 597SB — Spanish and Blackness
- SPAN 324 — Introduction to Latino Literature
- SPAN 597LL — Latino Literature
- SPORTMGT 200 — Sociology of Sport and Physical Activity — 4.00 credits — Spring
- SPORTMGT 490A — Diversity and Inclusion in Sport Organizations — 3.00 credits — Fall
- SPORTMGT 202 — History of Sport & Physical Activity — 3.00 credits — Fall
- STPEC 189 — Introduction to Radical Social Theory — (Graciela Monteagudo)
- STOCKSCH 297AL — Special Topics- Agricultural Leadership & Community Education — 3.00 credits — Fall
- STOCKSCH 356 — Food Justice and Policy — 3.00 credits — Fall
- STOCKSCH 171 — Plagues, Food and People: Ecology of Food and Disease — 4.00 credits — Spring
- STOCKSCH 397AL — Special Topics- Agricultural Leadership & Community Education II — 3.00 credits — Spring
- TH 190EH — Acting Fundamentals: Finding Yourself Onstage — (Judyie Al-Bilali)
- TH 100 — Theatrical Frontier: Live Performance in the World Today — 4.00 credits — Fall/Spring
- TH 293B — Brown Paper Studio — 3.00 credits — Fall/Spring
- TH 105 — Drama and the Media — 4.00 credits — Fall
- TH 130 — Contemporary Playwrights of Color — 4.00 credits — Fall/Spring
- TH 329 — Contemporary Native American Performance — 3.00 credits — Fall
- TH 331 — Black Theater — 3.00 credits — Fall
- TH 397 — Queer Theater — 3.00 credits — Spring
- WGSS 290B — Introduction to Sexuality Studies: Movements for Justice in the Contemporary World — (Svati Shah)
- WGSS 293D — Public Health/Private Decisions: Ethics and Medicine — (Banumathi Subramaniam and Karen Lederer)
- WGSS 301 — Theorizing Race, Gender and Power — (Fumi Okiji)
- WGSS 395J — Imagining Justice — (Laura Ciolkowski)
- WGSS 230 — Politics of Reproduction — (Laura Briggs)
- WGSS 392J/692J — Feminisms and Environmental Justice — (Kiran Asher)
- WGSS 493W/693W — Worlds of Migration — (Svati Shah)
